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John Wooden was an American figure associated with basketball and leadership. His published works include *Practical modern basketball*, *Coach Wooden's Leadership Game Plan for Success*, and *Wooden, Coach Wooden One-On-One*. He has been recognized in the Presidential Medal Of Freedom collection.
Wooden’s official website is titled "The Official Site of Coach Wooden." He is the subject of 27 works on Open Library and five works on Crossref. His writings have been referenced by 1,353 other encyclopedia articles.
Born on October 14, 1910, Wooden died on June 4, 2010. He is noted for quotes such as "Learn as if you were to live forever; live as if you were to die tomorrow" and "Talent is God-given; be humble."
Synthesized by Vinony from 21 facts across 9 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Firecrawl, Crossref, Open Library, MusicBrainz, Wikiquote, Vinony collections, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 27
Top works
- Coach Wooden's Leadership Game Plan for Success
- Wooden
- Coach Wooden One-On-One
- Coach Wooden One On One Inspiring Conversations On Purpose Passion And The Pursuit Of Success
- Practical modern basketball
via Open Library + Wikidata
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 421
- Total plays
- 456
<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/John+Wooden">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Generalized Gradient Approximation Made Simple
· 1996 · cited 204,183x
- Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold
· 2021 · cited 43,461x
- Gene Ontology: tool for the unification of biology
· 2000 · cited 36,858x
- Matplotlib: A 2D Graphics Environment
· 2007 · cited 35,491x
- The MOS 36-ltem Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36)
· 1992 · cited 29,105x
via Crossref · CC0
Quotes
- “Learn as if you were to live forever; live as if you were to die tomorrow.”
- “The main ingredient of stardom, is the rest of the team.”
- “Young people need models, not critics.”
- “Talent is God-given; be humble. Fame is man-given; be thankful. Conceit is self-given; be careful.”
- “You can’t live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.”
- “Failure is not fatal but failure to change might be.”
via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA
Key facts
- 1948
- Indiana State
- Born
- ( 1910-10-14 ) October 14, 1910, Hall, Indiana , U.S.
- Died
- June 4, 2010 (2010-06-04) (aged 99), Los Angeles , California, U.S.
- 1929 1932
- Purdue
- 1932 1937
- Indianapolis Kautskys
- 1937 1938
- Whiting / Hammond Ciesar All-Americans
- 1938 1939
- Indianapolis Kautskys
- Position
- Guard
- 1933 1935
- Dayton HS
- 1935 1944
- South Bend Central HS
- 1946 1948
- Indiana State
- 1948 1975
- UCLA
- Overall
- 664–162 (college basketball), 7–7 (college baseball)
- Allegiance
- United States
- Branch
- US Navy
- Service years
- 1942–1946
- Rank
- Lieutenant
- Conflicts
- World War II
via Wikipedia infobox
Official website
Link to the official site · 6,023 chars · not written by Vinony
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Robert
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Hall
- Place of death
- UCLA Ronald Reagan Medical Center
- Occupation
- writer
- Educated at
- Indiana State University
- Political party
- Democratic Party (United States)
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
- Sport
- basketball
- Position played
- shooting guard
- Country for sport
- United States
- Conflict
- World War II
- Military branch
- United States Navy
- Official website
- www.coachwooden.com
- Image
- Johnwooden.jpg
Show 6 more facts
- place of burial
- Forest Lawn Memorial Park
- date of birth
- 1910-10-14
- date of death
- 2010-05-26
- Commons category
- John Wooden
- cause of death
- gastrointestinal system disease
- manner of death
- natural causes
Sources (3)
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
John Robert Wooden (October 14, 1910 – June 4, 2010) was an American basketball coach and player. Nicknamed "the Wizard of Westwood", he won ten National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) national championships in a 12-year period as head coach for the UCLA Bruins, including a record seven in a row. No other team has won more than four in a row in Division I college men's or women's basketball. Within this period, his teams won an NCAA men's basketball record 88 consecutive games. Wooden won the prestigious Henry Iba Award as national coach of the year a record seven times and won the Associated Press award five times.
As a 5-foot-10-inch (1.78 m) guard with the Purdue Boilermakers, Wooden was the first college basketball player to be named an All-American three times, and the 1932 Purdue team on which he played as a senior was retroactively recognized as the pre-NCAA tournament national champion by the Helms Athletic Foundation and was retroactively listed as the top-ranked team by the Premo-Porretta Power Poll. He played professionally in the National Basketball League (NBL). Wooden was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame as a player (1960) and as a coach (1973), the first person to be enshrined in both categories.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “John Wooden” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.